Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 11 10
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 2,364 2,982 3,978
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.52% 12.69% 12.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.45% 13.45% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,668 2,283 2,949
10th Percentile £306 £357 £356
25th Percentile £375 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £499 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.73% +4.95% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £581 £560
90th Percentile £650 £668 £631
UK median daily rate £509 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.45% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 62 65
10th Percentile £35.00 £40.50 £25.80
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.35 £43.95
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +19.05% +29.63%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £90.00 £75.00 £65.52
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +17.92% +17.78%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,985 22,167 29,345
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,554 15,534 20,562
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £399 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,259 1,145 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.03 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.55 £65.00 £42.57
90th Percentile £73.80 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +3 700 £453 -9.95% 485
South East -2 519 £500 -3.85% 297
North West +4 376 £453 -7.18% 299
Midlands +4 332 £425 -5.56% 354
South West -4 303 £450 -14.29% 205
Scotland -2 292 £450 -5.26% 142
Yorkshire +4 283 £475 -9.52% 143
West Midlands +7 233 £425 -15.00% 218
East of England +6 136 £430 -9.47% 147
East Midlands -1 97 £413 -2.94% 135
Wales +5 80 £450 -2.70% 60
North East +3 54 £488 -2.50% 46
Northern Ireland -1 16 £488 +21.88% 39
Developer
UK

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 546 (23.10%) SQL
2 504 (21.32%) Agile
3 473 (20.01%) JavaScript
4 419 (17.72%) Java
5 399 (16.88%) Python
6 365 (15.44%) C#
7 360 (15.23%) AWS
8 331 (14.00%) Azure
9 321 (13.58%) Security Cleared
10 313 (13.24%) HTML
11 308 (13.03%) React
12 285 (12.06%) .NET
13 283 (11.97%) Software Engineering
14 281 (11.89%) Degree
15 278 (11.76%) DevOps
16 274 (11.59%) Social Skills
17 267 (11.29%) Full Stack Development
18 261 (11.04%) SC Cleared
19 256 (10.83%) Code Quality
20 255 (10.79%) Artificial Intelligence
21 241 (10.19%) TypeScript
22 234 (9.90%) Problem-Solving
23 223 (9.43%) CI/CD
24 217 (9.18%) Conversational UI
25 216 (9.14%) Chatbot
25 216 (9.14%) PayPal
26 211 (8.93%) CSS
27 204 (8.63%) Public Sector
28 203 (8.59%) Microservices
29 198 (8.38%) Spring

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 59 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 45 (1.90%) Confluence
3 36 (1.52%) CMS
4 24 (1.02%) Apache
4 24 (1.02%) SAS
5 23 (0.97%) Apache Spark
6 22 (0.93%) Umbraco
7 21 (0.89%) Drupal
8 18 (0.76%) WordPress
9 12 (0.51%) CICS
10 9 (0.38%) ColdFusion
11 7 (0.30%) Headless CMS
12 6 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.25%) GeoServer
12 6 (0.25%) OpenEdge
13 5 (0.21%) IIS
14 4 (0.17%) JBoss
14 4 (0.17%) Moodle
14 4 (0.17%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 216 (9.14%) Chatbot
2 14 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.13%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.085%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.085%) Sketch
6 1 (0.042%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.042%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.042%) Blender
6 1 (0.042%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.042%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.042%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.042%) Simulink
6 1 (0.042%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.59%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (0.25%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.21%) Aareon QL
4 5 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.21%) Maximo
4 5 (0.21%) Odoo
4 5 (0.21%) Shopify
5 4 (0.17%) LabWindows
5 4 (0.17%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.13%) Exstream
6 3 (0.13%) Magento
6 3 (0.13%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 3 (0.13%) Remedy AR System
6 3 (0.13%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.13%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.13%) SAP FI-AP
Cloud Services
1 360 (15.23%) AWS
2 331 (14.00%) Azure
3 186 (7.87%) Power Platform
4 108 (4.57%) Serverless
5 107 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
6 77 (3.26%) Power Automate
7 63 (2.66%) GitHub
8 56 (2.37%) Amazon S3
9 54 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
10 53 (2.24%) PowerApps
11 48 (2.03%) GCP
12 47 (1.99%) Azure Data Factory
13 45 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
13 45 (1.90%) Azure Functions
14 43 (1.82%) SaaS
15 31 (1.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 29 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
17 28 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
18 25 (1.06%) Azure Logic Apps
19 23 (0.97%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 37 (1.57%) TCP/IP
2 20 (0.85%) SAN
3 14 (0.59%) Intranet
4 13 (0.55%) 5G
5 12 (0.51%) HTTP
6 9 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
7 8 (0.34%) SSL
8 6 (0.25%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.21%) Firewall
9 5 (0.21%) NAS
9 5 (0.21%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (0.21%) Tactical Data Link
9 5 (0.21%) VPN
10 4 (0.17%) 4G
10 4 (0.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 4 (0.17%) NetScaler
10 4 (0.17%) RS-232
10 4 (0.17%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.13%) Link 16
12 2 (0.085%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (5.41%) Power BI
2 116 (4.91%) SQL Server
3 114 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
4 71 (3.00%) Relational Database
5 64 (2.71%) MySQL
6 55 (2.33%) MongoDB
7 53 (2.24%) Oracle Database
8 48 (2.03%) NoSQL
9 47 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
10 45 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 28 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 25 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
13 21 (0.89%) Big Data
13 21 (0.89%) GIS
14 18 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
14 18 (0.76%) DB2
15 17 (0.72%) Oracle Database 11g
15 17 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
15 17 (0.72%) Power Query
16 16 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 196 (8.29%) Git
2 115 (4.86%) Jenkins
3 113 (4.78%) JIRA
4 49 (2.07%) JUnit
5 40 (1.69%) GitLab
6 38 (1.61%) Visual Studio
7 33 (1.40%) Bitbucket
8 32 (1.35%) Cypress.io
9 26 (1.10%) Mockito
10 25 (1.06%) Cucumber
11 23 (0.97%) Postman
12 21 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 18 (0.76%) Oracle APEX
14 17 (0.72%) Android Studio
14 17 (0.72%) Maven
14 17 (0.72%) Selenium
15 15 (0.63%) Rational Rhapsody
15 15 (0.63%) Subversion
16 14 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
17 13 (0.55%) webpack
General
1 274 (11.59%) Social Skills
2 204 (8.63%) Public Sector
3 175 (7.40%) Finance
4 123 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (2.03%) Banking
6 31 (1.31%) Retail
7 27 (1.14%) Marketing
8 25 (1.06%) Manufacturing
8 25 (1.06%) Telecoms
9 22 (0.93%) Aerospace
10 19 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (0.76%) Billing
12 17 (0.72%) Law
13 14 (0.59%) Financial Institution
13 14 (0.59%) Local Government
14 10 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (0.42%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.38%) Automotive
15 9 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 313 (13.24%) HTML
2 308 (13.03%) React
3 285 (12.06%) .NET
4 211 (8.93%) CSS
5 198 (8.38%) Spring
6 176 (7.45%) AngularJS
7 172 (7.28%) REST
8 152 (6.43%) Spring Boot
9 136 (5.75%) Node.js
10 126 (5.33%) RESTful
11 82 (3.47%) Kafka
11 82 (3.47%) Web Services
12 70 (2.96%) .NET Core
13 59 (2.50%) Vue
14 57 (2.41%) ASP.NET
15 54 (2.28%) GraphQL
16 53 (2.24%) .NET Framework
17 46 (1.95%) XML
18 41 (1.73%) Next.js
19 37 (1.57%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 64 (2.71%) Product Ownership
2 45 (1.90%) Mobile App
3 39 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
4 35 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
4 35 (1.48%) Data Structures
5 34 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
7 28 (1.18%) Algorithms
8 20 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
9 15 (0.63%) Onboarding
10 14 (0.59%) Cloud Native
10 14 (0.59%) Mainframe
10 14 (0.59%) NHS
11 13 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (0.51%) CMDB
12 12 (0.51%) IBM Mainframe
12 12 (0.51%) Robotics
13 10 (0.42%) Wiki
14 9 (0.38%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 143 (6.05%) Linux
2 66 (2.79%) Android
3 63 (2.66%) Unix
4 51 (2.16%) Apple iOS
5 27 (1.14%) Windows
6 25 (1.06%) Ubuntu
7 22 (0.93%) Debian
8 11 (0.47%) zOS
9 9 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.17%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.085%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.085%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.042%) AIX
12 1 (0.042%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.042%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.042%) VMS
12 1 (0.042%) VxWorks
12 1 (0.042%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 504 (21.32%) Agile
2 283 (11.97%) Software Engineering
3 278 (11.76%) DevOps
4 267 (11.29%) Full Stack Development
5 256 (10.83%) Code Quality
6 255 (10.79%) Artificial Intelligence
7 234 (9.90%) Problem-Solving
8 223 (9.43%) CI/CD
9 217 (9.18%) Conversational UI
10 203 (8.59%) Microservices
11 149 (6.30%) Business Intelligence
12 148 (6.26%) Scrum
13 146 (6.18%) Unit Testing
14 131 (5.54%) TDD
15 128 (5.41%) Front End Development
16 117 (4.95%) Test Automation
17 111 (4.70%) Data Modelling
18 104 (4.40%) Analytics
19 102 (4.31%) User Experience
20 96 (4.06%) OO
Programming Languages
1 546 (23.10%) SQL
2 473 (20.01%) JavaScript
3 419 (17.72%) Java
4 399 (16.88%) Python
5 365 (15.44%) C#
6 241 (10.19%) TypeScript
7 97 (4.10%) PHP
8 91 (3.85%) PL/SQL
9 65 (2.75%) C
10 56 (2.37%) C++
11 54 (2.28%) Scala
12 51 (2.16%) Kotlin
13 48 (2.03%) PowerShell
14 34 (1.44%) Bash
14 34 (1.44%) T-SQL
15 30 (1.27%) ABAP
16 27 (1.14%) Go
16 27 (1.14%) Shell Script
17 26 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 26 (1.10%) Swift
Qualifications
1 321 (13.58%) Security Cleared
2 281 (11.89%) Degree
3 261 (11.04%) SC Cleared
4 47 (1.99%) DV Cleared
5 36 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 23 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
8 13 (0.55%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.25%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.085%) PMP
11 1 (0.042%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.042%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.042%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.042%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.042%) PhD
11 1 (0.042%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.042%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (2.79%) QA
2 47 (1.99%) Accessibility
3 21 (0.89%) Data Quality
3 21 (0.89%) HL7
4 13 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
5 12 (0.51%) GDPR
6 9 (0.38%) WCAG
7 8 (0.34%) ISO 9001
7 8 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.17%) SLA
9 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 2 (0.085%) IFRS
10 2 (0.085%) IFRS 9
10 2 (0.085%) MISRA
11 1 (0.042%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.042%) GRC
11 1 (0.042%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.042%) MISRA C
11 1 (0.042%) NCSC
11 1 (0.042%) PMO
System Software
1 123 (5.20%) Docker
2 29 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.47%) Firmware
4 4 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.17%) zsh
5 1 (0.042%) HDFS
5 1 (0.042%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.042%) IAG
5 1 (0.042%) NFS
5 1 (0.042%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 112 (4.74%) Kubernetes
2 49 (2.07%) Terraform
3 47 (1.99%) Ansible
4 23 (0.97%) Grafana
5 19 (0.80%) PowerCLI
6 18 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.42%) Kibana
8 9 (0.38%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.34%) Zipkin
10 4 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.17%) Podman
11 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.085%) CA Endevor
12 2 (0.085%) Puppet
13 1 (0.042%) Control-M
13 1 (0.042%) Hadoop YARN
13 1 (0.042%) OPNET
13 1 (0.042%) Packer
13 1 (0.042%) rkt
Vendors
1 216 (9.14%) PayPal
2 195 (8.25%) Microsoft
3 157 (6.64%) Oracle
4 87 (3.68%) ServiceNow
5 55 (2.33%) SAP
6 44 (1.86%) Salesforce
7 37 (1.57%) Google
8 32 (1.35%) VMware
9 29 (1.23%) IBM
10 26 (1.10%) Red Hat
11 25 (1.06%) Atlassian
12 19 (0.80%) Dell
13 18 (0.76%) Adobe
13 18 (0.76%) HP
14 17 (0.72%) IFS
15 15 (0.63%) Guidewire
16 11 (0.47%) Avaloq
16 11 (0.47%) Informatica
16 11 (0.47%) Syncsort
17 10 (0.42%) Splunk